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07 Nov 2006 HEADLINE


The Algae-to-Biofuel Girls Go to MIT



Source: Portland Press Herald
Class: SYNDICATED NEWS

SYNOPSIS: Maine High school students Tessa Churchill and Holly Jacobson isolate algae that produces extra biodiesel oils.

Holly Jacobson and Tessa Churchill, seniors at Greely High School in Cumberland, are at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today, explaining how they would use fast-growing algae to help solve the energy crisis.
In a nutshell, the young women may have found a way to produce more biodiesel fuel while consuming fewer organic resources.

The project got its start two years ago when Jacobson and Churchill began examining natural oils stored in fatty acids -- called lipids -- in various forms of marine algae. Recently, they identified a strain of algae that produces more oil for a given mass.

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